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 You can make it up as much as you want and fool yourself, but it's not like that, a robbery is like that, you have no alternative, so no matter how much you give your consent, it's still a robbery. 
 So you believe there are no people that wouldn’t pay taxes voluntarily? 
 That's not the question. There certainly would be people voluntarily paying something. I do this all the time when I donate to certain projects.

But you are not voluntarily paying taxes. That's a lie to stomach the massive abuse going on for millennia against the integrity of body and soul of individuals. It's a massive trauma that a part of you shields you from.